2015 To Aaron Burr 14 November 1808 (Aet 60)

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 7: January 1802 to December 1808

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Editor’s Notepg 574Editor’s Note2015To Aaron Burr14 November 1808 (Aet 60)

Q.S.P., Thursday, Nov. 14, 1808.

Dr. Roget,² an intelligent physician, a nephew of Romilly, dines with me to-morrow (Friday), so, therefore, must you. I expect you, if in the course of the day I hear nothing from you to the contrary.³

J. Bentham.

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2015. ¹ Davis, i. 88.

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² Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), physician and compiler of Roget's Thésaurus (see Correspondence, vi. 244 n.). His mother, Catherine, was the sister of Sir Samuel Romilly.

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³ Burr wrote under 15 November in his private journal (Bixby, i. 12): 'Evening with Bentham; conversed of tattooing, and how to be made useful; of infancitide; of crimes against Nature, etc., etc.'

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The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 7: January 1802 to December 1808

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Editor’s Notepg 574Editor’s Note2015To Aaron Burr14 November 1808 (Aet 60)

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